now, connecticut -- that analysis doesn't really work here because connecticut has pretty good registration. they would not sell him, the kid, the gun. it was sold to the mother. >> this happened anyway. >> and it happened anyway. i acknowledge that. but in a lot of these states -- there was a great editorial about it this morning. mental health records can be checked seems to me, part of this story has to go there, jed. >> i think that's only a very small part of the story. the real issue is we have gone since the 1960s or the 1970s way fo the left and protected the so-called civil rights of the mentally ill to a degree where it is now almost impossible to commit someone against their will. we need to have a much greater tightening of the laws. these people are identifiable. we don't to do political commitments like they do in russia. the but society has to be protected against the dangerously mentally ill. already profiles of these people. many studies show these people can be identified. when they are identified by schools, by police, by a variety of different things, they need to be put